Test Infrastructure Engineer

Etched is an AI-hardware company building rack-scale frontier inference clusters.

Series CRecently funded0 current maintainers0 active leads
San Jose, United States
About Etched

Etched co-designs chips, racks, software, and manufacturing systems for efficient inference of frontier AI models, targeting throughput, latency, cost, and power efficiency across prefill and decode workloads.

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Skills

About the Role

You will build and operate the platform that runs factory tests across stations, servers, and racks. You will provision Linux systems, maintain factory networking, capture test results and hardware genealogy, and safely release test packages. You will build monitoring and alerting, troubleshoot infrastructure issues, integrate factory systems and internal data platforms, and automate recurring debugging work.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience building and operating production infrastructure.
  • Strong Linux administration skills, including boot processes, package management, systemd, storage, and command-line debugging.
  • Networking knowledge including TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, VPNs, and datacenter network layouts.
  • Experience with distributed systems.
  • Strong coding skills in Python, C++, or Rust.
  • Experience with automation, configuration management, and CI/CD.
  • Experience with monitoring and observability tools and debugging production issues.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Willingness to work onsite in San Jose or Taiwan.

Responsibilities

  • Build and operate the factory test execution platform.
  • Provision and manage the Linux fleet through imaging, network boot, configuration management, and lifecycle automation.
  • Design and maintain networking for test stations and racks.
  • Build data pipelines for test results, logs, hardware genealogy, yield, throughput, and unit history.
  • Own versioned releases, canaries, and rollbacks of factory test packages.
  • Build monitoring and alerting and debug infrastructure issues that block production.
  • Integrate with contract manufacturers' MES/SFIS systems and internal data platforms.
  • Automate repetitive debugging and failure-signature analysis.
  • Travel to manufacturing partners as needed.

Benefits

  • Generous equity packages.
  • Comprehensive insurance coverage.
  • Other top-of-market benefits.